Evening Star Newspaper, August 10, 1931, Page 23

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Optician—Optometrist 922 14th St. N.W. Established 1889 s SR G- Liberal Terms May Be Arranged % MUDDIMAN ¢ 911 G St. Nat'l 0140.2622 Orsanized 1888 RN Mr. Pyle says: lecting exlecting Professional Cleansing of Rugs and Carpets Only. Let us estimate. Call Mr. Pyle . . . Sanitary Carpet & Rug Cleaning Co. 106 Indiana Ave. Members of the Rug Cleaners’ Institute of America Look at Your Tongue Is it coated...are you subject to sick headaches or biliousness? Then you need to banish poisonous im- purities from your intestinal tract. Flush your system with HEXASOL, the dependable saline laxative. Pleas- ant, safe and sure. Used and in- dorsed for more than a quarter of a century to banish faulty elimination. Get a bottle from your druggist to-| day, only 6hc. STOPIT Ends HEADACHES —in a Few Minutes TOPIT not only sf but, in_addition. seothes makes you feel better and : Keep vour skin comfortable this summer Hives Don’t endure even one hour's annoyance from any of these discomforts—just apply Res- inol Ointment freely as soon as the trouble appears. The itch- ing, burning torment stops at ence and the skin usually be- comes well in an amazingly short time. At all druggists. “‘B moon THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, of DGLIGl-IT quaaga/u,thLHo SYNOPSIS: Kirk Stanard senses vasue trouble ln the l“l of Senorl Flores, Dd He not, 3 € bim, ie i~ ated by the realf s & | girl in Biviii’s gampling pince. | loet h! know hlttll ¥y of th enkapement o s nobleman, reported mb! Dl‘u‘ru chl?!ronl. lh:e l'nlr- fids’ Divites, plan b Returning with Kirk lmm heater party 10 (he home of Kirk and ]Hl lylndmolner Nelly Belaise, Juanita the mlru-lul searching through mé dri TS Mrs. Belalse's room. Thime liately. replizing that the marouecs is Tesponsibie for & Series of robberles | among their new f{riends, Juanita forces | her to take Prench leave of the Stanard | home and accompany her to Divitt's. CHAPTER. XXXII. A SECRET LEAKS OUT. ELL” sald Divitt, with a ““ ‘questioning look at Jua- hita and a glance in the marquesa’s direction. Umberto looked up from his place at the desk as Divitt spoke. | Gabreau, standing near the door, had | curiosity’ written on his countenarice. “I'm " through,” remarked Juanita. | {“Tve brought back your spy and I'm | through.” | “She saw me looking in a drawer” the marquesa remarked, bolder in the | atmosphere of Divitt's office. “I was | hunting some slecping powders, but she | grabbed me——" |*"T've _seen things besides that.” Jua- ‘nlll interrupted. “I've seen a letter to | you in code, Mr. Divitt.” “And that proves asked Divitt. “T've heard this 'woman make & tele- phone call that ended in the robbery of & house we had been entertained in |Tn fact, every house we have been in has been robbed except the Stanards'. |1 know that she is connected with thw robberies and that you are behind her.” “You are insane,” said Divitt in a low | | voice. “Dangerously so. The marquesa | mey as well accuse you as you her.” | do accuse her,” the marquesa said | | suddenty. | “why not?” Juanita asked. “I car- rled a stolen necklace to the one who Ihad lost it end so gained an entrance {to her home. “I opened the way for this woman |into that home and others into which your chief burglar’—with a glance at | \Umberto—— has_entered. Accuse me if | you like, Mr. Divitt. We will accuse |each other. Perhaps the Police Court | will bring out the facts. In any case, | T'm_through.” Divitt was looking at her. “You're pretty brave now sbout po- ‘llce courts, aren’t you?” he Ell% “You weren't 30 brave when you first got here. You've been around, showing your face and finding nobody that recognized it until you feel safe anywhere. . | " “well, let me tell you the Police Court | would be safe as a mother's arms for me in comparison with what it would |be for you. Further than that, you know nothing about me, can prove nothing. What you say is twaddle. But T know everything about you.” Juanita’s hand reached gropingly for the chair, found Gabreau's arm instead. She straightened _whitely, holding to | Gabreau's arm. “You know nothing,” she said. “I know,” sald_Divitt, |name is Beatris Montega; what?” “that your that your |home is not_in the Argentine, but in Vera Cruz. I know what happened on the night of February 10th and that you are now being hunted in every country to which trains and vessels go.” Not turning from her fixed eyes, Divitt picked up a paper knife lying on the desk, held it out on his palm. “A | little blade, Senorita Montega a slender little knife in a girl's hand—— | A low cry cut across his words. He | smiled, looking down at her where she lay, white and crumpled, at his feet. ‘Gabreau lifted her in his arms, bore ,her along the balcony to her room. | April breeze moving in the court yard, stirring Molly’'s flowers around the he |and forth between the kitchen and Molly’s room. Gabreau sat with Juln(u Durln; the week that had passed since she had uesa, into Divitt's obeying her least word. ver had burned her at first and been nights of delirlum, fol- last by a white lassitude when seemed she would drift out in the e of the great bed as my: nad come. Conchits had nursed her in those first days, but Conchita was nursing Molly now. Somehow tne parlors were rocking :lonc without Molly and without Divitt, who seldom left Molly's side. | ; Fifi, the girl who had taken Juanita’s | | place, was gone also, after a dispute | | with ‘Divitt. Fifi was rather rough in {her interpretation of Carmen. A | | rougher element seemed to be entering | the parlors by way of respons ) |~ In some way the tidings of Fifi's real- | tsm and departure had filtered in to | Molly. Molly wrote a tremulous note | 0 Juanita asking her to come back and pass the cigarettes again. Also, would | Juanita eome In and see her> Molly apparently had not been told | | that Juanita was in the house. She had | | given the note to Gabreau the day after Juanita's return, asking him to get it | to Juanita somehow. Gabreau had known that it was useless to give it to Juanita until today. Today Juanita, reading the note coming back to earth with a body spent and a vision strangely clarified, divined that Molly wished to draw her out of the plight she was in. Molly had | known, but Molly had not been in ac- cord with that plight. This knowledge was to Juanita like a light shining faintly in a dark, chactic world. She resolved to go back to the parlors tonight, if she could walk, and to go to see Moily. “Molly’s got somep'n she want to tell you,” Gabreau said YE BYE BLUES’ “Move or die,” says AMOX, the better insecticide that kills all insects. O sale at all good drug, grocery and bardware stores. A Product of The AM KILLS AL Amevican 0il Co. QX L INSECTS | asked. | they would | take her back Gabreau had spoken little sitting at Juanita’s side, his long arms dangling over the chair. Jusnita liked to see him there. Even to her it had seemed that she was drifting out, that the shore growipg fainter. Molly very il He nodded. Juanita, in Gabreau?” she he said “No bebby nnv\ felt the « % Gabreau answered quickiy. “I don’t know, but 1 think she glad. Dis ain't no place fer chill'n." “They might not have stayed here if it had come. It might have changed | everything.” Gabreau smiled a faint. strange smile | that made his face sadder still. “Divitt never change,” he said. Juanita coversd her eves. The thought of Divitt brought back the last moment she remembered, the sight of his face, livid with fu e sound of | his words. She had wondered how he had known, who else knew, how soon come, hot on her trail, to how had told her ‘Today Gabreau | Divitt had known Gabreau waited table for Divitt and Molly. One morning at breakfast, shortlv after Juenita had gone with the marquesa, Divitt had opened a paper thn had come to him through the mail. | He had presently handed it to Molly | and MBMy's exclamation had led Ga- |breau topeer over her shoulder. He‘ had seen Juanita’s picture and beneath [it" the word “Missthg." | He had not had time to read more before Divitt had ordered him sharply to bring in the rolls. Gabreau did not | know the name of the paper. It had {been printed in English, but it might have been a Mexican paper. . . . Divitt | had said to Molly, “I uncovered some- thing that time.” | Ay, Dios, yes! . .. | ‘There was a measure of relief in knowing that only Divitt knew, in knowing that Divitt had known for v:eks and had done nothing. was hold- ing his knowledge merely as a whip to drive her, to prevent his own exposure. But he cculd not drive her far— never back into the world beside the marquesa. There was another way than that . Brown, sluggish waters not so far away. She remembered what Kirk had told her as the yacht was flying down the river into the Gulf. ... “A fellow I knew dived into this old Mississippi on a bet and never came up. Théy couldn't even find him. It does that. Murky, immense, cruel—she hated to look at the river then. Kirk was beside her in the sunlight. The seemed blotted out for the mo- She had known nothing of the marquesa’s mission. But now her closed eyes looked on the waters unafraid. (To be Continued.) had Of course to your throat =they°’re FRESH! @191, R J. Reynelds Tobaces Company Wisston-Salem, N. €. RE are three things about a cigarette that can sting the tongue and unkindly burn the throat. MAYOR KEY CALLS FOES ‘HYPOCRITES' Tells Revival Audience His Dry Critics Poison Chil- dren’s Minds. By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, Ga. August 10.—Mayor James L. Key has flung another chal- lenge at those who have attacked him for his stated prehibition views and are seeking his recall. At a revival meeting last night the mayor called his reproachers “hypocrites and morons.” He made the remarks in the introduction of Frank Morris, Dal- las evangelist, who is conducting the meeting. Mayor Key said yesterday, as he was on his way home from teaching a Sun- day school class, he exchanged greet- ings with a group of children. Some of them, he said, recognized him and | greeted him with smiles and hello but _one said “There’s the mayor—half drunk now.” D. C, MONDAY, AUGUST 10, i 1931. “Into that poor child, who does not know right from wrong," the mayor continued, “these hypocrites have al- ‘rendy hl’ed shlm 0 have sought to | rule h) mpocrm hn\e even gone into the homes of our city and embedded their narrow beliefs into the minds of | ¢lean and unsulied children. This must topped. It will bring ruination of | | ot city and the Tuinatics, of oar. Gt | | zation.” VERA CRUZ TO PEG PRICES| Price Commission and Dictator on | Food Appointed by City. VERA CRUZ, Mexico, August 10 (#). | —A food dictator and a price-regulat- | ing commission wers appointed by the | city government today to check increases in the cost of prime necessities which have followed the fall in the exchange rate of the silver peso The food dictator will quote prices to grocery store proprietors and the regulating commission will dictate the prices on all other articles of prime necessity. CORNS CALLOUSES-BUNIONS-SORE TOES acid burn and blood-poisoning. Zino-pads removethe causeof these foot troubles—shoe friction and pressure— by cushioning, protect- ing thesorespot. Thin, small, anti- septic. Easy to apply—won't come offin bath. At drug, shoe and dept. stores—35¢ box. Dr Scholl 2 nocpo 5 Put one on—the Scholl's Zim pads relieve Corns, Sore Toes, Callouses and Bunions. In one minute pain i forgotten! 100% SAFE The soothing, healing medication in Zino-pads gives this quick, safe, sure relief. Don’'t experiment! 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They are kept free from the sting of peppery dust by a special vacuum-cleaning process. -They are perfectly conditioned, factory- fresh wherever you buy them, thanks to the new Humidor Pack. This scientific germ-safe wrapping—not plain ordinary Cellophane but moisture-proof Cellophane which costs nearsy twice as much —seals in all the natural freshness and aroma - seals it so tightly that wet weather cannot make Camels damp, nor drought weather make them dry. As a favor to your throat try factory-fresh Camels for just one day, then quit them— if you can. Tune in CAMEL QUARTER HOUR featuring Morton Downey and Tony Wons Columbia Broadecasting System —every night except Sunday Don’t remove the moisture-proof Cellophane from your package of Camels after you open it. The Humidor Pack is protection against sweat, dust and germs. It and keeps them right until the has been Mild . . NO CIGARETTY AFTER-TASTE

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